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State lawmakers sent Governor Jerry Brown seven LGBT-related
bills this session that, if signed into law, will change how California
oversees identification documents for transgender or gender non-conforming people,
penalizes people who are HIV-positive, and tracks registered sex offenders.
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The health department presented its latest HIV epidemiology
report at a San Francisco Health Commission meeting Tuesday, September 19,
showing that new HIV diagnoses continue to decline, with decreases seen across
racial and ethnic groups.
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Longtime former HIV nurse Diane Jones enlivened the crowd at
the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Tribute celebration, urging them to keep
fighting, especially in the current political climate when access to health
care is under attack.
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For Val D. Bias, a longtime survivor of hemophilia and HIV, the remembrance was long overdue. Bias, CEO of the National Hemophilia Foundation, flew in from the East Coast to attend Saturday's installation of the Hemophilia Memorial Circle at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.
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There is ongoing debate whether the San Francisco or Orange
County chapter formed first, but what is without question is that 40 years ago LGBT
Republicans and their straight allies in California launched what would become
known as Log Cabin Republicans.
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People with communication disabilities, such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's
disease), Down syndrome, aphasia caused by a stroke, and some forms of cerebral
palsy and autism, are the most vulnerable during and after disasters like
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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